Mother and boyfriend charged in boy's death and siblings' apparent abandonment in Houston-area apartment

A woman and her boyfriend were arrested Tuesday in the death of the woman's 8-year-old son, whose skeletal remains were found inside a Houston-area apartment with three surviving but apparently abandoned siblings, officials said.

Brian W. Coulter, the 31-year-old boyfriend of the dead child's mother, was charged Tuesday with murder. The mother, Gloria Y. Williams, 35, was charged with felony injury to a child by omission, and tampering with evidence (human corpse), Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted Tuesday night.

Coulter is accused of killing the boy last year, reports CBS Houston affiliate KHOU-TV. They were originally questioned Sunday night and released, the station added.